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Anna Thomas serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), specializing in African American literature, Caribbean studies, and comparative diaspora frameworks with emphasis on ethical formations in literary texts.
Her academic foundation includes a Hons. BA from Queen's University, MSt from the University of Oxford, and PhD from Brown University, establishing her expertise in critical race theory and transnational literary analysis.
Dr. Thomas investigates how subaltern subjects negotiate ethics through literary 'rearrangement' of dominant categories, examining the interplay between racialized labor, phenomenological 'habit,' and textual form. Her research spans slave narratives (Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs), conjure tales (Charles Chesnutt), travel writing (Mary Seacole), and novels by Toni Morrison and Jamaica Kincaid to trace diasporic engagements with difference and unevenness.
Recent publications (2017-2024) reveal sustained focus on postcolonial aesthetics and ethical reconfiguration, analyzing how literary form mediates crises of representation across African American and Caribbean contexts. Key works interrogate Orientalist discourse, plantation economies in diasporic narratives, and contemporary poetic responses to racial politics.
